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-->-- '''Creator/RodSerling''', on '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''', [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Original 1959 series]], "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive He's Alive]]", closing narration
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-->-- '''Creator/RodSerling''', on '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''', [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Original 1959 series]], "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E4HesAlive He's Alive]]", closing narration
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* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E71TheMirror The Mirror]]": [[TheCaligula Ramos Clemente]] is a peasant turned general turned revolutionary who overthrows the tyrannical [[TheGeneralissimo General de Cruz]]. When warning signs arise in Clemente's unhinged demand that de Cruz be [[CruelAndUnusualDeath executed]] via being stripped, slathered in honey, and consumed by ants, Clemente becomes enamored with the former dictator's supposedly MagicMirror. [[TheParanoiac Believing his friends plot against]] him upon seeing their images in the glass, Clemente murders them and begins ordering the executions of thousands of prisoners around the clock, becoming a more loathed tyrant than de Cruz himself.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited Deaths-Head Revisited]]": [[CardCarryingVillain Gunther Lutze]] is a former Nazi [[PoWCamp concentration camp]] captain at Dachau, described in the opening narration as "an animal whose function in life was to give pain". Lutze revisits Germany, and plays a game where he mentally torments a woman at a hotel who recognizes him and is utterly terrified. After this, Lutze visits Dachau, [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims reminiscing about his atrocities]] and flashing back to the times when he had innocent victims hanged, shot or experimented on as if those were the best years of his life, until he is confronted by Dachau's "caretaker", a former inmate named Becker. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Lutze had murdered so many he can't even initially remember he actually killed Becker years ago]] before he is confronted by the ghosts of his victims. As the ending narration states, he is representative of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust a time]] "when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard", into which they threw away their conscience.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E93TheLittlePeople The Little People]]": [[PsychopathicManchild Peter Craig]], the co-pilot to William Fletcher, is an egotistical man who longs to hold power over others. When Craig and Fletcher land on an alien world seemingly bereft of life, Craig finds an entire civilization of microscopic "little people". In a mad quest to achieve godhood, [[AGodAmI Craig]] declares himself the ruler of the civilization and forces the people to do his bidding, regularly crushing swathes of their land on cruel whims. Craig holds the threat of total annihilation of the civilization over their heads so they will worship him, and when Fletcher confronts Craig on the fact that he's "no god, but has gotten [the little people] to believe in [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the Devil]]!", Craig threatens to shoot Fletcher dead if he doesn't leave Craig to continue his maniacal tyranny.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive He's Alive]]": UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself turns out to be the [[TheManBehindTheMan shadowy benefactor]] of the troubled neo-Nazi Peter Vollmer, [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] the young man into a solid mouthpiece through which to kickstart a new, hate-fueled Reich. Hitler cajoles Vollmer into murdering one of his own loyal followers to make a martyr out of him to inspire the crowds Vollmer amasses while stamping out any hints of decency or hesitance in Vollmer, ultimately ordering him to murder the old Jewish man who raised Vollmer practically as his own son. When Vollmer is finally gunned down, Hitler has formed him into his exact image of the perfect Nazi: all steel and no heart, with Hitler himself seeping back into the shadow to feed off the prejudice and hate that authored so many millions of deaths during his reign of terror.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E138BlackLeatherJackets Black Leather Jackets]]": [[AliensAreBastards The leader of the alien race]] wishes to overtake and colonize Earth. [[FantasticRacism Claiming humans are evil and barbaric]], he sends out thousands of aliens disguised as humans to [[WaterSourceTampering poison the city's water supply with bacteria]], leading to the extinction of human life. When the alien Scotty falls in love with a human and attempts to show that humans are not all bad, the leader simply labels him a traitor and sends him off to his [[UncertainDoom fate]], while starting to [[AlienInvasion invade Earth]].
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E149TheJeopardyRoom The Jeopardy Room]]": [[FauxAffablyEvil Commissar Vassiloff]] is a cruel [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] whose job is to hunt down and kill defectors from the Soviet Union. With his latest target, Major Ivan Kuchenko, in sniper range, Vassiloff refuses to have him merely shot. Instead, Vassiloff decides to give Kuchenko "[[MadArtist the death of an artist]]". To that end, Vassiloff forces Kuchenko into a trap where he must find and defuse a bomb hidden in his hotel room under a 3-hour time limit. Vassiloff delights in watching his victim suffer a nervous breakdown as time runs out, and [[CruelMercy continues to leave him alive]] even as he pleads, screaming, to be shot. With a ComplexityAddiction that defies all logic, Vassiloff cements himself as one of the most sadistic characters on the show, claiming to have killed 800 people in similar ways purely to satisfy his boredom.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited Deaths-Head Revisited]]": [[CardCarryingVillain Gunther Lutze]] is a former Nazi [[PoWCamp concentration camp]] captain at Dachau, described in the opening narration as "an animal whose function in life was to give pain". Lutze revisits Germany, and plays a game where he mentally torments a woman at a hotel who recognizes him and is utterly terrified. After this, Lutze visits Dachau, [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims reminiscing about his atrocities]] and flashing back to the times when he had innocent victims hanged, shot or experimented on as if those were the best years of his life, until he is confronted by Dachau's "caretaker", a former inmate named Becker. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Lutze had murdered so many he can't even initially remember he actually killed Becker years ago]] before he is confronted by the ghosts of his victims. As the ending narration states, he is representative of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust a time]] "when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard", into which they threw away their conscience.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E93TheLittlePeople The Little People]]": [[PsychopathicManchild Peter Craig]], the co-pilot to William Fletcher, is an egotistical man who longs to hold power over others. When Craig and Fletcher land on an alien world seemingly bereft of life, Craig finds an entire civilization of microscopic "little people". In a mad quest to achieve godhood, [[AGodAmI Craig]] declares himself the ruler of the civilization and forces the people to do his bidding, regularly crushing swathes of their land on cruel whims. Craig holds the threat of total annihilation of the civilization over their heads so they will worship him, and when Fletcher confronts Craig on the fact that he's "no god, but has gotten [the little people] to believe in [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the Devil]]!", Craig threatens to shoot Fletcher dead if he doesn't leave Craig to continue his maniacal tyranny.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive He's Alive]]": UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself turns out to be the [[TheManBehindTheMan shadowy benefactor]] of the troubled neo-Nazi Peter Vollmer, [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] the young man into a solid mouthpiece through which to kickstart a new, hate-fueled Reich. Hitler cajoles Vollmer into murdering one of his own loyal followers to make a martyr out of him to inspire the crowds Vollmer amasses while stamping out any hints of decency or hesitance in Vollmer, ultimately ordering him to murder the old Jewish man who raised Vollmer practically as his own son. When Vollmer is finally gunned down, Hitler has formed him into his exact image of the perfect Nazi: all steel and no heart, with Hitler himself seeping back into the shadow to feed off the prejudice and hate that authored so many millions of deaths during his reign of terror.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E138BlackLeatherJackets Black Leather Jackets]]": [[AliensAreBastards The leader of the alien race]] wishes to overtake and colonize Earth. [[FantasticRacism Claiming humans are evil and barbaric]], he sends out thousands of aliens disguised as humans to [[WaterSourceTampering poison the city's water supply with bacteria]], leading to the extinction of human life. When the alien Scotty falls in love with a human and attempts to show that humans are not all bad, the leader simply labels him a traitor and sends him off to his [[UncertainDoom fate]], while starting to [[AlienInvasion invade Earth]].
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E149TheJeopardyRoom The Jeopardy Room]]": [[FauxAffablyEvil Commissar Vassiloff]] is a cruel [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] whose job is to hunt down and kill defectors from the Soviet Union. With his latest target, Major Ivan Kuchenko, in sniper range, Vassiloff refuses to have him merely shot. Instead, Vassiloff decides to give Kuchenko "[[MadArtist the death of an artist]]". To that end, Vassiloff forces Kuchenko into a trap where he must find and defuse a bomb hidden in his hotel room under a 3-hour time limit. Vassiloff delights in watching his victim suffer a nervous breakdown as time runs out, and [[CruelMercy continues to leave him alive]] even as he pleads, screaming, to be shot. With a ComplexityAddiction that defies all logic, Vassiloff cements himself as one of the most sadistic characters on the show, claiming to have killed 800 people in similar ways purely to satisfy his boredom.
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* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E71TheMirror "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E6TheMirror The Mirror]]": [[TheCaligula Ramos Clemente]] is a peasant turned general turned revolutionary who overthrows the tyrannical [[TheGeneralissimo General de Cruz]]. When warning signs arise in Clemente's unhinged demand that de Cruz be [[CruelAndUnusualDeath executed]] via being stripped, slathered in honey, and consumed by ants, Clemente becomes enamored with the former dictator's supposedly MagicMirror. [[TheParanoiac Believing his friends plot against]] him upon seeing their images in the glass, Clemente murders them and begins ordering the executions of thousands of prisoners around the clock, becoming a more loathed tyrant than de Cruz himself.
*"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E9DeathsHeadRevisited Deaths-Head Revisited]]": [[CardCarryingVillain Gunther Lutze]] is a former Nazi [[PoWCamp concentration camp]] captain at Dachau, described in the opening narration as "an animal whose function in life was to give pain". Lutze revisits Germany, and plays a game where he mentally torments a woman at a hotel who recognizes him and is utterly terrified. After this, Lutze visits Dachau, [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims reminiscing about his atrocities]] and flashing back to the times when he had innocent victims hanged, shot or experimented on as if those were the best years of his life, until he is confronted by Dachau's "caretaker", a former inmate named Becker. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Lutze had murdered so many he can't even initially remember he actually killed Becker years ago]] before he is confronted by the ghosts of his victims. As the ending narration states, he is representative of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust a time]] "when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard", into which they threw away their conscience.
*"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E93TheLittlePeople "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E28TheLittlePeople The Little People]]": [[PsychopathicManchild Peter Craig]], the co-pilot to William Fletcher, is an egotistical man who longs to hold power over others. When Craig and Fletcher land on an alien world seemingly bereft of life, Craig finds an entire civilization of microscopic "little people". In a mad quest to achieve godhood, [[AGodAmI Craig]] declares himself the ruler of the civilization and forces the people to do his bidding, regularly crushing swathes of their land on cruel whims. Craig holds the threat of total annihilation of the civilization over their heads so they will worship him, and when Fletcher confronts Craig on the fact that he's "no god, but has gotten [the little people] to believe in [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the Devil]]!", Craig threatens to shoot Fletcher dead if he doesn't leave Craig to continue his maniacal tyranny.
*"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E4HesAlive He's Alive]]": UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself turns out to be the [[TheManBehindTheMan shadowy benefactor]] of the troubled neo-Nazi Peter Vollmer, [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] the young man into a solid mouthpiece through which to kickstart a new, hate-fueled Reich. Hitler cajoles Vollmer into murdering one of his own loyal followers to make a martyr out of him to inspire the crowds Vollmer amasses while stamping out any hints of decency or hesitance in Vollmer, ultimately ordering him to murder the old Jewish man who raised Vollmer practically as his own son. When Vollmer is finally gunned down, Hitler has formed him into his exact image of the perfect Nazi: all steel and no heart, with Hitler himself seeping back into the shadow to feed off the prejudice and hate that authored so many millions of deaths during his reign of terror.
*"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E138BlackLeatherJackets "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E18BlackLeatherJackets Black Leather Jackets]]": [[AliensAreBastards The leader of the alien race]] wishes to overtake and colonize Earth. [[FantasticRacism Claiming humans are evil and barbaric]], he sends out thousands of aliens disguised as humans to [[WaterSourceTampering poison the city's water supply with bacteria]], leading to the extinction of human life. When the alien Scotty falls in love with a human and attempts to show that humans are not all bad, the leader simply labels him a traitor and sends him off to his [[UncertainDoom fate]], while starting to [[AlienInvasion invade Earth]].
*"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E149TheJeopardyRoom "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E29TheJeopardyRoom The Jeopardy Room]]": [[FauxAffablyEvil Commissar Vassiloff]] is a cruel [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] whose job is to hunt down and kill defectors from the Soviet Union. With his latest target, Major Ivan Kuchenko, in sniper range, Vassiloff refuses to have him merely shot. Instead, Vassiloff decides to give Kuchenko "[[MadArtist the death of an artist]]". To that end, Vassiloff forces Kuchenko into a trap where he must find and defuse a bomb hidden in his hotel room under a 3-hour time limit. Vassiloff delights in watching his victim suffer a nervous breakdown as time runs out, and [[CruelMercy continues to leave him alive]] even as he pleads, screaming, to be shot. With a ComplexityAddiction that defies all logic, Vassiloff cements himself as one of the most sadistic characters on the show, claiming to have killed 800 people in similar ways purely to satisfy his boredom.
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[[caption-width-right:350:" [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited [Gunther Lutze] was a black-uniformed strutting animal, whose function in life was to give pain, and like his colleagues of the time, he shared the one affliction most common amongst that breed known as Nazis: he walked the Earth without a heart.]]"]]
->''"Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare? Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, ''every''place, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry--''he's alive.'' He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive, because through these things, we ''keep'' him alive."''
-->-- '''Creator/RodSerling''', on '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''', [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Original 1959 series]], "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive He's Alive]]", closing narration
[[Franchise/TheTwilightZone You're traveling through another dimension]], a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A dimension that is also home to some [[CompleteMonster terrible beings]].
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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[[AC:[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Original 1959 series]]]]
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* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E71TheMirror The Mirror]]": [[TheCaligula Ramos Clemente]] is a peasant turned general turned revolutionary who overthrows the tyrannical [[TheGeneralissimo General de Cruz]]. When warning signs arise in Clemente's unhinged demand that de Cruz be [[CruelAndUnusualDeath executed]] via being stripped, slathered in honey, and consumed by ants, Clemente becomes enamored with the former dictator's supposedly MagicMirror. [[TheParanoiac Believing his friends plot against]] him upon seeing their images in the glass, Clemente murders them and begins ordering the executions of thousands of prisoners around the clock, becoming a more loathed tyrant than de Cruz himself.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited Deaths-Head Revisited]]": [[CardCarryingVillain Gunther Lutze]] is a former Nazi [[PoWCamp concentration camp]] captain at Dachau, described in the opening narration as "an animal whose function in life was to give pain". Lutze revisits Germany, and plays a game where he mentally torments a woman at a hotel who recognizes him and is utterly terrified. After this, Lutze visits Dachau, [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims reminiscing about his atrocities]] and flashing back to the times when he had innocent victims hanged, shot or experimented on as if those were the best years of his life, until he is confronted by Dachau's "caretaker", a former inmate named Becker. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Lutze had murdered so many he can't even initially remember he actually killed Becker years ago]] before he is confronted by the ghosts of his victims. As the ending narration states, he is representative of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust a time]] "when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard", into which they threw away their conscience.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E93TheLittlePeople The Little People]]": [[PsychopathicManchild Peter Craig]], the co-pilot to William Fletcher, is an egotistical man who longs to hold power over others. When Craig and Fletcher land on an alien world seemingly bereft of life, Craig finds an entire civilization of microscopic "little people". In a mad quest to achieve godhood, [[AGodAmI Craig]] declares himself the ruler of the civilization and forces the people to do his bidding, regularly crushing swathes of their land on cruel whims. Craig holds the threat of total annihilation of the civilization over their heads so they will worship him, and when Fletcher confronts Craig on the fact that he's "no god, but has gotten [the little people] to believe in [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the Devil]]!", Craig threatens to shoot Fletcher dead if he doesn't leave Craig to continue his maniacal tyranny.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive He's Alive]]": UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself turns out to be the [[TheManBehindTheMan shadowy benefactor]] of the troubled neo-Nazi Peter Vollmer, [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] the young man into a solid mouthpiece through which to kickstart a new, hate-fueled Reich. Hitler cajoles Vollmer into murdering one of his own loyal followers to make a martyr out of him to inspire the crowds Vollmer amasses while stamping out any hints of decency or hesitance in Vollmer, ultimately ordering him to murder the old Jewish man who raised Vollmer practically as his own son. When Vollmer is finally gunned down, Hitler has formed him into his exact image of the perfect Nazi: all steel and no heart, with Hitler himself seeping back into the shadow to feed off the prejudice and hate that authored so many millions of deaths during his reign of terror.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E138BlackLeatherJackets Black Leather Jackets]]": [[AliensAreBastards The leader of the alien race]] wishes to overtake and colonize Earth. [[FantasticRacism Claiming humans are evil and barbaric]], he sends out thousands of aliens disguised as humans to [[WaterSourceTampering poison the city's water supply with bacteria]], leading to the extinction of human life. When the alien Scotty falls in love with a human and attempts to show that humans are not all bad, the leader simply labels him a traitor and sends him off to his [[UncertainDoom fate]], while starting to [[AlienInvasion invade Earth]].
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E149TheJeopardyRoom The Jeopardy Room]]": [[FauxAffablyEvil Commissar Vassiloff]] is a cruel [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] whose job is to hunt down and kill defectors from the Soviet Union. With his latest target, Major Ivan Kuchenko, in sniper range, Vassiloff refuses to have him merely shot. Instead, Vassiloff decides to give Kuchenko "[[MadArtist the death of an artist]]". To that end, Vassiloff forces Kuchenko into a trap where he must find and defuse a bomb hidden in his hotel room under a 3-hour time limit. Vassiloff delights in watching his victim suffer a nervous breakdown as time runs out, and [[CruelMercy continues to leave him alive]] even as he pleads, screaming, to be shot. With a ComplexityAddiction that defies all logic, Vassiloff cements himself as one of the most sadistic characters on the show, claiming to have killed 800 people in similar ways purely to satisfy his boredom.
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* Issue #5's "The Legacy of Hans Burkel": [[ThoseWackyNazis Horst Borman]] is the ruthless commander of the Nazi U-Boat ''Wolf'', who considers cruelty the key to victory. Borman is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] blowing up an innocent fishing vessel and killing everyone onboard, then planting mines throughout the waters without care that these war crimes are being committed in neutral waters. This is just the latest in Borman's mass killings, with nearly a dozen such attacks under his belt. Borman later repeats this process on an unsuspecting tanker ship, bringing out a camera and filming the few survivors of the vessel as they slowly drown. When the clumsy Hans Burkel tries to save the drowning sailors, Borman leaves Burkel to die, then tries to help the Nazi high command escape justice for their role in UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.
* Issue #7's "Shield of Medusa": Demius is a jealous archaeologist who finds the lost shield of {{Medusa}} and attempts to use it to murder the object of his desire simply so [[IfICantHaveYou hero Bartlett cannot have her]]. Obsessed with its power, Demius [[SpreeKiller goes on a killing spree]], [[TakenForGranite exposing anyone he sees to it]] including civilians. When a blind man assists Barlett, Demius simply tries to beat them both to death with the shield.
* Issue #15's "The Vision of Mystir": The Mysterious Bearded Bomber is the worst of the criminals tailed by Professor Mystir. Having been caught by his business partner swindling funds from his own company, the Bearded Bomber, hoping to silence his partner, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill planted a suitcase bomb on the plane he boarded]], killing 50 innocents onboard.
* Issue #40's "A Charmed Life": The Lady is a demonic emissary of [[{{Satan}} the Devil]] himself, who makes [[DealWithTheDevil deals]] with men that exact a heavy toll. The Lady approaches gangster Tony and offers him power to rise to the top, and when Tony accepts, the Lady uses her supernatural abilities to slaughter all of Tony's enemies and enable him to become a crime lord. As Tony spreads drugs and debauchery through the city, the Lady tries to cash in on her part of the deal by forcing Tony to go to prison as a favor to another of her pawns. When Tony refuses, the Lady reveals what happens to those who [[YouHaveFailedMe fail her]]: they are turned into [[AndIMustScream tormented charms]] on her bracelet, and the comic ends with the Lady adding Tony to the many figures in her collection.
* Issue #48's "Nightmare in Miniature": [[ItsAllAboutMe Harry Franks]] is an explorer who discovers a village of miniature cavemen alongside his partner Marlowe. Tasked by Marlowe to film the cavemen's activities in order to achieve fame and fortune, after finding the cavemen's daily lives boring, Franks sets out to spice up his footage by allowing tiny dinosaurs to attack the village and endanger the cavemen's lives in an attempt to capture their battle on film. When Marlowe tries to kill Franks in disgust, Franks shoots Marlowe instead so that he won't have to share the discovery of the cavemen, before trying to kill all the cavemen himself out of annoyance.
* Issue #54's "Caldwell's Last Stand": [[GloryHound Colonel Caldwell]] is a CavalryOfficer who intends to attack the forces of Native leader Gray Fox to wipe them out and [[FinalSolution open the tribes up to total extermination]]. Caldwell leads an attack, killing numerous Natives while gloating about the [[AmbitionIsEvil advancement]] it will give him.
* Issue #68's "A Lease on Death": Volker is an employee of Morley's Wax Museum who offers his boss "sculptures" by giving people a serum that freezes their bodies, [[AndIMustScream leaving their consciousness completely intact]] as they're made into displays for public admiration. Helping convicted murderer Robert "Bobby" Byrne escape from prison by giving him a knife needed to murder a cop, Volker lures Byrne to his hideout to turn him into his latest statue.
* Issue #72's "Sorry, The President Cannot See You Today": [[AmbitionIsEvil Harry Marlin]] is a "very hungry man", whose biggest appetite is for power. Marlin has clawed his way through the ranks of the company I.V.E. through duplicitous means, such as [[FrameUp framing]] and [[DrivenToSuicide driving his predecessor to suicide]], and he is determined to rise evermore. Marlin goes about murdering any and all of his business associates that may pose a threat to his ascendance to President of I.V.E., using car crashes; bombs; and sabotaged aircraft to whittle down his targets. Dozens die thanks to Marlin's actions, all of which he laughs off, uncaring who has to die so long as his ambition is slaked.
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* ''[[ComicBook/TheTwilightZoneDynamite Lost Tales]]''' "Hangnail on a Monkey's Paw": Former Vice President [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Butler]] peddles right-wing extremist rhetoric in the present, and is revealed to have done far worse in his past. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Under the banner]] of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, Butler sanctioned and oversaw the unlawful imprisonment and [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] of "countless" people, innocent and guilty alike. Waterboarding and sleep deprivation were used on these prisoners to extract information, with some kept captive for months. When Khalid, one of Butler's victims comes seeking revenge, Butler brushes off the man's torture as "not that bad", slings racist barbs, and refuses to accept any responsibility for his atrocities.
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[[quoteright:350:[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lutze_cm.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:" [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited [Gunther Lutze] was a black-uniformed strutting animal, whose function in life was to give pain, and like his colleagues of the time, he shared the one affliction most common amongst that breed known as Nazis: he walked the Earth without a heart.]]"]]
->''"Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare? Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, ''every''place, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry--''he's alive.'' He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive, because through these things, we ''keep'' him alive."''
-->-- '''Creator/RodSerling''', on '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''', [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Original 1959 series]], "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive He's Alive]]", closing narration
[[Franchise/TheTwilightZone You're traveling through another dimension]], a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A dimension that is also home to some [[CompleteMonster terrible beings]].
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E71TheMirror The Mirror]]": [[TheCaligula Ramos Clemente]] is a peasant turned general turned revolutionary who overthrows the tyrannical [[TheGeneralissimo General de Cruz]]. When warning signs arise in Clemente's unhinged demand that de Cruz be [[CruelAndUnusualDeath executed]] via being stripped, slathered in honey, and consumed by ants, Clemente becomes enamored with the former dictator's supposedly MagicMirror. [[TheParanoiac Believing his friends plot against]] him upon seeing their images in the glass, Clemente murders them and begins ordering the executions of thousands of prisoners around the clock, becoming a more loathed tyrant than de Cruz himself.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited Deaths-Head Revisited]]": [[CardCarryingVillain Gunther Lutze]] is a former Nazi [[PoWCamp concentration camp]] captain at Dachau, described in the opening narration as "an animal whose function in life was to give pain". Lutze revisits Germany, and plays a game where he mentally torments a woman at a hotel who recognizes him and is utterly terrified. After this, Lutze visits Dachau, [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims reminiscing about his atrocities]] and flashing back to the times when he had innocent victims hanged, shot or experimented on as if those were the best years of his life, until he is confronted by Dachau's "caretaker", a former inmate named Becker. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Lutze had murdered so many he can't even initially remember he actually killed Becker years ago]] before he is confronted by the ghosts of his victims. As the ending narration states, he is representative of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust a time]] "when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard", into which they threw away their conscience.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E93TheLittlePeople The Little People]]": [[PsychopathicManchild Peter Craig]], the co-pilot to William Fletcher, is an egotistical man who longs to hold power over others. When Craig and Fletcher land on an alien world seemingly bereft of life, Craig finds an entire civilization of microscopic "little people". In a mad quest to achieve godhood, [[AGodAmI Craig]] declares himself the ruler of the civilization and forces the people to do his bidding, regularly crushing swathes of their land on cruel whims. Craig holds the threat of total annihilation of the civilization over their heads so they will worship him, and when Fletcher confronts Craig on the fact that he's "no god, but has gotten [the little people] to believe in [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the Devil]]!", Craig threatens to shoot Fletcher dead if he doesn't leave Craig to continue his maniacal tyranny.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive He's Alive]]": UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself turns out to be the [[TheManBehindTheMan shadowy benefactor]] of the troubled neo-Nazi Peter Vollmer, [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] the young man into a solid mouthpiece through which to kickstart a new, hate-fueled Reich. Hitler cajoles Vollmer into murdering one of his own loyal followers to make a martyr out of him to inspire the crowds Vollmer amasses while stamping out any hints of decency or hesitance in Vollmer, ultimately ordering him to murder the old Jewish man who raised Vollmer practically as his own son. When Vollmer is finally gunned down, Hitler has formed him into his exact image of the perfect Nazi: all steel and no heart, with Hitler himself seeping back into the shadow to feed off the prejudice and hate that authored so many millions of deaths during his reign of terror.
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E138BlackLeatherJackets Black Leather Jackets]]": [[AliensAreBastards The leader of the alien race]] wishes to overtake and colonize Earth. [[FantasticRacism Claiming humans are evil and barbaric]], he sends out thousands of aliens disguised as humans to [[WaterSourceTampering poison the city's water supply with bacteria]], leading to the extinction of human life. When the alien Scotty falls in love with a human and attempts to show that humans are not all bad, the leader simply labels him a traitor and sends him off to his [[UncertainDoom fate]], while starting to [[AlienInvasion invade Earth]].
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E149TheJeopardyRoom The Jeopardy Room]]": [[FauxAffablyEvil Commissar Vassiloff]] is a cruel [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] whose job is to hunt down and kill defectors from the Soviet Union. With his latest target, Major Ivan Kuchenko, in sniper range, Vassiloff refuses to have him merely shot. Instead, Vassiloff decides to give Kuchenko "[[MadArtist the death of an artist]]". To that end, Vassiloff forces Kuchenko into a trap where he must find and defuse a bomb hidden in his hotel room under a 3-hour time limit. Vassiloff delights in watching his victim suffer a nervous breakdown as time runs out, and [[CruelMercy continues to leave him alive]] even as he pleads, screaming, to be shot. With a ComplexityAddiction that defies all logic, Vassiloff cements himself as one of the most sadistic characters on the show, claiming to have killed 800 people in similar ways purely to satisfy his boredom.
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* Issue #5's "The Legacy of Hans Burkel": [[ThoseWackyNazis Horst Borman]] is the ruthless commander of the Nazi U-Boat ''Wolf'', who considers cruelty the key to victory. Borman is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] blowing up an innocent fishing vessel and killing everyone onboard, then planting mines throughout the waters without care that these war crimes are being committed in neutral waters. This is just the latest in Borman's mass killings, with nearly a dozen such attacks under his belt. Borman later repeats this process on an unsuspecting tanker ship, bringing out a camera and filming the few survivors of the vessel as they slowly drown. When the clumsy Hans Burkel tries to save the drowning sailors, Borman leaves Burkel to die, then tries to help the Nazi high command escape justice for their role in UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.
* Issue #7's "Shield of Medusa": Demius is a jealous archaeologist who finds the lost shield of {{Medusa}} and attempts to use it to murder the object of his desire simply so [[IfICantHaveYou hero Bartlett cannot have her]]. Obsessed with its power, Demius [[SpreeKiller goes on a killing spree]], [[TakenForGranite exposing anyone he sees to it]] including civilians. When a blind man assists Barlett, Demius simply tries to beat them both to death with the shield.
* Issue #15's "The Vision of Mystir": The Mysterious Bearded Bomber is the worst of the criminals tailed by Professor Mystir. Having been caught by his business partner swindling funds from his own company, the Bearded Bomber, hoping to silence his partner, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill planted a suitcase bomb on the plane he boarded]], killing 50 innocents onboard.
* Issue #40's "A Charmed Life": The Lady is a demonic emissary of [[{{Satan}} the Devil]] himself, who makes [[DealWithTheDevil deals]] with men that exact a heavy toll. The Lady approaches gangster Tony and offers him power to rise to the top, and when Tony accepts, the Lady uses her supernatural abilities to slaughter all of Tony's enemies and enable him to become a crime lord. As Tony spreads drugs and debauchery through the city, the Lady tries to cash in on her part of the deal by forcing Tony to go to prison as a favor to another of her pawns. When Tony refuses, the Lady reveals what happens to those who [[YouHaveFailedMe fail her]]: they are turned into [[AndIMustScream tormented charms]] on her bracelet, and the comic ends with the Lady adding Tony to the many figures in her collection.
* Issue #48's "Nightmare in Miniature": [[ItsAllAboutMe Harry Franks]] is an explorer who discovers a village of miniature cavemen alongside his partner Marlowe. Tasked by Marlowe to film the cavemen's activities in order to achieve fame and fortune, after finding the cavemen's daily lives boring, Franks sets out to spice up his footage by allowing tiny dinosaurs to attack the village and endanger the cavemen's lives in an attempt to capture their battle on film. When Marlowe tries to kill Franks in disgust, Franks shoots Marlowe instead so that he won't have to share the discovery of the cavemen, before trying to kill all the cavemen himself out of annoyance.
* Issue #54's "Caldwell's Last Stand": [[GloryHound Colonel Caldwell]] is a CavalryOfficer who intends to attack the forces of Native leader Gray Fox to wipe them out and [[FinalSolution open the tribes up to total extermination]]. Caldwell leads an attack, killing numerous Natives while gloating about the [[AmbitionIsEvil advancement]] it will give him.
* Issue #68's "A Lease on Death": Volker is an employee of Morley's Wax Museum who offers his boss "sculptures" by giving people a serum that freezes their bodies, [[AndIMustScream leaving their consciousness completely intact]] as they're made into displays for public admiration. Helping convicted murderer Robert "Bobby" Byrne escape from prison by giving him a knife needed to murder a cop, Volker lures Byrne to his hideout to turn him into his latest statue.
* Issue #72's "Sorry, The President Cannot See You Today": [[AmbitionIsEvil Harry Marlin]] is a "very hungry man", whose biggest appetite is for power. Marlin has clawed his way through the ranks of the company I.V.E. through duplicitous means, such as [[FrameUp framing]] and [[DrivenToSuicide driving his predecessor to suicide]], and he is determined to rise evermore. Marlin goes about murdering any and all of his business associates that may pose a threat to his ascendance to President of I.V.E., using car crashes; bombs; and sabotaged aircraft to whittle down his targets. Dozens die thanks to Marlin's actions, all of which he laughs off, uncaring who has to die so long as his ambition is slaked.
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* ''[[ComicBook/TheTwilightZoneDynamite Lost Tales]]''' "Hangnail on a Monkey's Paw": Former Vice President [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Butler]] peddles right-wing extremist rhetoric in the present, and is revealed to have done far worse in his past. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Under the banner]] of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, Butler sanctioned and oversaw the unlawful imprisonment and [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] of "countless" people, innocent and guilty alike. Waterboarding and sleep deprivation were used on these prisoners to extract information, with some kept captive for months. When Khalid, one of Butler's victims comes seeking revenge, Butler brushes off the man's torture as "not that bad", slings racist barbs, and refuses to accept any responsibility for his atrocities.
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